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9781468312980 English 1468312987 The critically important, agenda-shaping examination of economic, social, and political trends in Asia-an entire continent developing at a rate never seen before, The success of Asia's boom economies is unprecedented-The doubling of per capita income, a feat that took Britain half a century and America three decades, was achieved in under ten years by Japan, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, China and India. In the two decades following its market reforms, India's economy quadrupled in size and entered the world's top-ten largest economies. Just ten years after the Asian financial meltdown, Indonesia's economy had doubled in size from its pre-crisis high. Across Asia, over one million people progressed out of the World Bank's poverty range each week during the decades leading to and following the millennium. Book jacket., The world has never seen economic development as rapid or significant as Asia's during recent decades. Home to sixty percent of the world's population, this restless continent will soon produce more than half of the world's economic output and consume more energy than the rest of the globe combined. All but three of the planet's current and nascent nuclear powers are Asian, and it has the greatest growth in weapons spending of any other region. But surprisingly little hard thinking has been done about the future of Asia. Michael Wesley's Restless Continent is the first book to examine the economic, social, political and strategic trends across the world's largest continent, presenting a modern day roadmap for thinking about not only Asia's future, but also how that future affects the entire world. Wesley examines the psychology of countries becoming newly rich and powerful, and explores the "corridors of blood"the geography and politics of conflict. And finally, Restless Continent makes a case for how to avert a plunge into dispute, conflict, or even war. Written for the general reader and policy specialist alike, Restless Continent is an agenda-shaping book at the intersection of foreign affairs and the unprecedented growth of the world's most pivotal region.
9781468312980 English 1468312987 The critically important, agenda-shaping examination of economic, social, and political trends in Asia-an entire continent developing at a rate never seen before, The success of Asia's boom economies is unprecedented-The doubling of per capita income, a feat that took Britain half a century and America three decades, was achieved in under ten years by Japan, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, China and India. In the two decades following its market reforms, India's economy quadrupled in size and entered the world's top-ten largest economies. Just ten years after the Asian financial meltdown, Indonesia's economy had doubled in size from its pre-crisis high. Across Asia, over one million people progressed out of the World Bank's poverty range each week during the decades leading to and following the millennium. Book jacket., The world has never seen economic development as rapid or significant as Asia's during recent decades. Home to sixty percent of the world's population, this restless continent will soon produce more than half of the world's economic output and consume more energy than the rest of the globe combined. All but three of the planet's current and nascent nuclear powers are Asian, and it has the greatest growth in weapons spending of any other region. But surprisingly little hard thinking has been done about the future of Asia. Michael Wesley's Restless Continent is the first book to examine the economic, social, political and strategic trends across the world's largest continent, presenting a modern day roadmap for thinking about not only Asia's future, but also how that future affects the entire world. Wesley examines the psychology of countries becoming newly rich and powerful, and explores the "corridors of blood"the geography and politics of conflict. And finally, Restless Continent makes a case for how to avert a plunge into dispute, conflict, or even war. Written for the general reader and policy specialist alike, Restless Continent is an agenda-shaping book at the intersection of foreign affairs and the unprecedented growth of the world's most pivotal region.